It's a threefold thingy for me: an inspiring high school history teacher, did English Literature in college and self empowerment from total dependence on the government of the day and religious teachers.

What five religious books would you bring to a desert island? 1 2 3 4 5 What five secular fiction books would you bring? The Four Classics & The Bostonians What five secular non-fiction books would you bring? 1 2 3 4 5 What five would you bring if it could be a mixture of the three? 1 2 3 4 5

Muhammad Ali’s namesake son and the boxing legend’s former wife went on MSNBC Monday to discuss what it was like to be stopped at an airport in their own country for no reason they could determine except their religious faith. More here

For three years I lived in a Northern Thai mountain village where it was too high to grow rice and so the main crop was mieng — green tea that's munched like chewing gum with a bit of salt. Despite long and frequent exposure to it, I was never able to acquire a taste for it. To me it's just unbelie...

I don't understand Hindi but from the body language and the atheist getting amused, that was pretty funny. And what was a Hindu guru doing offering to murder someone to begin with??? I found an English language link that gives a full account of this live fiasco and appended in my posting a bit late...

I don't understand Hindi but from the body language and the atheist getting amused, that was pretty funny. And what was a Hindu guru doing offering to murder someone to begin with??? I found an English language link that gives a full account of this live fiasco and appended in my posting a bit late...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfJPYzxHM4g Bhante, this reminds me of a live TV stunt in India I watched some time back where a Hindu tantrika teacher claimed that he can murder Sanal Edamaruku, a leading atheist movement leader in India with his craft in minutes and after repeated attempts of 15 ...

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/image/3547242/1487932232000/large16x9/768/432/buddhist-monks-and-activists-from-myanmar-protest-in-front-of.jpg Around 100 Buddhist monks and nationalists in Myanmar staged a protest against Thailand on Friday, denouncing the government of the neighboring country for ...

Maṇḍūka, the deity’s son, and others illustrate this. While the Blessed One was teaching the Dhamma to the inhabitants of the city of Campā on the banks of the Gaggarā Lake, it seems, a frog apprehended a sign in the Blessed One’s voice. A cowherd who was standing leaning on a stick put his stick o...